"A single game conquered the hearts of thousands and time moved it to the realm of memories... But it's alive. It's back."
A free multiplayer modification for Gothic II: Night of the Raven.
Built to keep the spirit of early Gothic multiplayer alive - with the tooling and scripting flexibility modern servers need.
Gothic Multiplayer Classic (GMPC) is a community-driven revival of Gothic Multiplayer, focused on freedom for server creators and a cleaner, more modern foundation. The project began as an effort to make the old multiplayer playable again - then evolved into something more ambitious: a reworked codebase where servers are defined by scripts instead of hardcoded gameplay rules.
🔓 GMPC is developed and maintained by the GMPC Team and is fully open-source.
Gothic Multiplayer has always been about doing something the base game never promised: sharing a world with other fans. The earliest versions were simple and limited, but they created unforgettable moments - role-play hubs, spontaneous duels, and chaotic runs across familiar landscapes with dozens of players. Even when synchronization wasn’t perfect and the "game" part was minimal, the community definitely wasn’t.
Over the years, different branches and ideas came and went: experiments with richer tooling, scripting, launchers, and asset delivery. Some projects never reached a proper public release; others pushed the concept forward by focusing on scripting as the core of server creation. That shift - from "fixed game modes" to "build your own server logic" - is what ultimately shaped the direction that GMPC follows today.
📌 In 2022, the original code was published publicly, reopening the door for patching, updates, and long-term maintenance. Since then, GMPC has been steadily refactored with one clear goal: keep what made classic Gothic Multiplayer special, while removing the constraints that prevented creators from doing more.
Why "Classic"?
"Classic" is about the spirit - the familiar worlds, the social chaos, the RP and PvP stories people still remember. The goal isn’t to freeze the project in time, but to preserve what made it fun, while upgrading the foundation so creators can go further than the old limits ever allowed.
GMPC intentionally drops old, rigid gameplay systems (such as predefined classes and hardcoded modes) to make room for Lua scripting, split into server-side and client-side layers. The idea is straightforward: instead of forcing every server into the same structure, GMPC provides a stable multiplayer core and lets creators build the actual experience on top - whether that’s RP, PvP, co-op, custom progression, minigames, or something entirely new.
At the same time, parts of the old stack have been reintroduced in a more modern form - including systems like localization, logging, and configuration - so running and maintaining a server is less painful than it used to be.
If you want to jump straight into the ecosystem around GMPC, these repos are the usual starting points:
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🎮 Gamemodes - official resource packs you can use as reference or a base
https://github.com/Gothic-Multiplayer-Classic/Gamemodes -
🖥️ Server - default server-side files used as a starting baseline for hosting
https://github.com/Gothic-Multiplayer-Classic/Server
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🛠️ Utils - helper scripts and utilities aimed at server creators
https://github.com/Gothic-Multiplayer-Classic/Utils -
🌍 Localization - translations and language contributions
https://github.com/Gothic-Multiplayer-Classic/Localization
